OpticBook A300 Plus can scan an A3 sized page in about 2.48 seconds or a 200 page 8.5 x 11" book in about 20 minutes. The special book-edge design scans book pages without the spine shadow and distorted text associated with book scanning on flatbed scanners or copiers. The included Book Pavilion book scanning software automatically crops and rotates pages and then saves to your choice of file formats including PDF, Searchable PDF, EPUB, BMP, JPG and TIF. Designed for Book Scanning Plustek''s patent pending SEE™ (Shadow Elimination Element) Technology integrates mechanical, optical, and software technologies to provide clear images within 2mm of the book spine. Shadows and text distortion found on books scanned by traditional scanners and copiers are eliminated. There is no need to remove book pages from their binding. Efficient Operation Auto Continuous Scan and Rotate streamlines the book digitization process. Plustek bundled software Book Pavillion allows pages to be automatically scanned and rotated at user preset time intervals. No user interaction with the PC screen is required during the scanning process. Digitize Your Book ABBYY FineReader 12.0 Sprint Optical Character Recognition creates searchable scanned books. Searchable PDF file format provides higher security, reliability and easiness to transfer and exchange documents while preserving the original documents, including fonts, graphics, images and layouts. Special Button Design, You Don''t Need To Scan The Entire Book With Color Format Reduce file size Decrease the transfer time & fee Save the data storage equipment & cost Designed for high usage environmentsOpticBook A300 Plus is designed for high usage environments including: Library back office scanning Library patron scanning Digitize the books that are not usually used Interlibrary loan LED Light Source No need warm-up time Energy saving TWAIN complaint Industry standard TWAIN drivers ensure compatibility with thousands of image enabled applications including document management, document capture, enterprise content management, forms processing, photographic imaging and image management applications.